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The Bct Platform
1. New UnUe Fasseagsr Station.
2. Ceatlaued improvement of tbe Ne
braska Highways, including Ik pave
meat of Mai Taorougkfaroa leading
lata Oraaka with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Cara Bait to tka Allaalia Ocean.
4. Itama Rula Charter far Omaka, with
City Maaagar farm af Government.
Excess Profits Tax and Revenue.
The senate finance committee has decided to
accept the plan of the house and retain the ex
cess profits tax for the calendar year 1921. The
' justice in this arises from the fact that whatever
' of business done so far during the year has been
on the basis of the 1918 revenue law, and provi
sion has been made for the payment of taxes as
levied by that statute. With this point defi
nitely settled, it will be possible for the tax
payers to readjust business beginning wi'.h 1922
to meet the requirements of the new revenue bill,
which ujll undoubtedly become law long before
the end of the year.
The excess profits tax was a war expedient,
copied from the British law, and was aimed at
profiteering, although experience has shown here
as it did in England that the provision did not
accomplish either of its aims. It did not prevent
profiteering, and it did not produce the revenue
expected from it. Now that peace times and
tr hods are with the country again, it is pos
sible to apply some of the lessons learned from
. the war, and one ot them is that many features
of the revenue bill now on the book are crude,
cumbersome, inefficient, and some of them are
absolutely unjust. Correction of these is im
perative, while others must be adopted to pro
duce sufficient income for the support of the gov
ernment, and In such manner as will work the
least possible hardship on the public. Such a
task is not an easy one.
One of the greatest problems is how to lay a
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has escaped the present law, the excess profits
tax encouraging the evasion of payment of reve
nue estimated to amount to a billion dollars due
the government. If the leaks in the law can be
. 'plugged, the collections will soon compensate for
the amount that is to be forfeited by the repeal
, ' of the provision, laying a tax on swollen profits.
While the tax bill is being considered, the
work of readjusting the administrative costs of
the government also is going ahead, and the
promise is definitely made that the appropria
tions for 1923 will be far less than those for 1922.
Each year since the republicans' regained control
of congress has seen a notable reduction in ap
propriations. By a singularly fortuitous event,
it was possible for the republicans to cut down
the democratic appropriations for 1920 by more
than a billion of dollars, and each year since has
noted a similar saving, At no point has the ad--ministration
neglected the redemption of the
promise that taxes would be lowered and ex
penditures cut down.
If the excess, profits tax repeal disturbs our
democratic brethren, they may get some, conso
lation if they will only consider the fact that
the exemption to heads of families has been
doubled, and that father will not be burdened
next year as he was last under the existing law,
i which was passed by the democrats in 1918 and
. purposely extended so that the republicans could
not tamper with it until 1921.
The High Cost of Alcohol.
Liquor is said to be going up in price, but it
wilt be a long time before the cash outlay for a
beaker of alcohol reaches the cost set in the will
" of a Chicago attorney. If either of his sons in
dulge In alcohol or tobacco as long as their
mother is living, the testament provides, they
will forfeit their Inheritance of $400,000.
: If memory does not play false, there were in
1 the old days many delectable drinks which con
tained more than the Volsteadean proportions of
alcohol, but there are not many men who would
pay wittingly $400,000 for the pleasure of re
freshing his recollection and the inner man. One
need not be moralist to perceive, however, that
indirectly a price fully as large has been col
lected for intoxicating fluids before this. The
connection between the Crime with which a film
actor now stands charged and his indulgence in
alcohot is unmistakable. There is no vice that
is not given additional stimulation by vinous
indulgence. ,
It seems scarcely probably that these two
, heirs would trade their birthright for a bottle of
moonshine, and yet men before this have given
up even more, ,
part of the country, from the lumber field the
mines, the factories and railroads to the grain
growing districts of the middle west will be
benefited by the rejuvenation of King Cotton.
Things of which the people of the south have
been in need ran now be purchased by them,
nd encouragement given trade everywhere.
Snobbery Properly Rebuked.
When President Harding went to dinner at
one of the great caravanservais on the Board
Walk, Atlantic City, he found the table spread
with gold plate. The manager of the hotel had,
perhaps, thought to do honor to his distinguished
guest.
Take away that plate and bring ordinary
dishes," said the president
A simple enough, and not at all an unex
pected request, for the man who sits in the ex
tcutive's chair at the White House is as unpre
tentious in his walk and conversation as the
humblest citizen of the United States. The in
cident contains something more than a mere
illustration of the good sense of the president
It ought to be accepted as a stern rebuke to the
spirit of snobbery that has grown up so rapidly
in the land. Nowhere is this more ostentatiously
paraded than at Atlantic City.
One of the most pleasant places on the At
lantic coast, where all the allurements of the
ocean are displayed, termed "the playground of
a nation," it has been ravished of much of its
charm by vulgar display of wealth. Nowhere in
the country is so much tinsel and gilt grouped
in mass to dazzle, nowhere tJoes mere money
talk in tones so loud, nowhere are charges for
service so extortionate as at Atlantic City. A
service ot gold plate is maintained for the nabobs
who see money disappear as waters sink into
sand, and, while this may be the climax, it is
typical of the spirit that pervades the whole
Board Walk sector.
President Harding took an outing there, just
as has many another American; he undoubtedly
experienced some of the exactions that are
borne by his fellow countrymen who go there
for a holiday, but he did himself and all the land
a service when he discouraged the snobs who
would treat the head of the republic as though
he were the crowned ruler of a decaying mon
archy. A few more jolts like that may help to
put the Board Walk on a level with the rest of
the country.
' Success From Failure.
Almost everything has happened to the cot
ton crop to make it the poorest in years. Strange
as it may seem this is said to have saved the
credit situation in the south. The demand for
cotton at fair prices, which is now developing, is
counted on to make possible the liquidation of
the south's indebtedness and to bring about
some degree of prosperity.
For a long time that section of the United
States was unable to find any market pr its
main crop. Some of the white-topped plants
were ploughed under in the fields and thousands
of bales for which there was no sale collected in
, the warehouses. Naturally, the farmers planted
less of this crop last year, and now nature, in the
guise of excess rainfall, cool weather, the boll
-weevil and the army. worm, has still further
limited production. "
Now the money that has been tied up in cot
ton is being freed, debts are-beginning to bel
paid, and new purchases to be made. Every
New Hinges on the City Gates.
Mr. T. C. Byrne, speaking at the Chamber
of Commerce "get together" .dinner Tuesday
night, suggested four things for the betterment
of Omaha. Two of these are a part of the plat
form for Omaha which The Bee carries at the
head of its editorial column, namely, continued
improvement of highways leading into the city
and a new union passenger station.
These items appear naturally in Mr. Byrne's
list, as they will in any list compiled by men who
are giving thought to the city's future. Both
the condition of the highways and the present
Union station are obstacles between Omaha and
its neighbors. The one constitutes an actual
physical bar between Omaha and surrounding
territory; the other gives the visitor a most un
favorable impression of a city of 200,000 people
and, if the weather should be inclement, works
a positive hardship.
As to the highways, progress is being made.
But what of the Union station?
. Mr. Byrne quoted railroad officials as having
said in the past that Omaha has never made
progress toward a new station because it has
not made sufficient effort nor directed it in the
right way. , If that be so, now is the time to
find out the way and follow it. It may be true
that railroads are in no condition today to spend
millions for new terminals; that, however, is no
reason for not laying the ground work. If the
course be plotted now, much time will be saved
in getting action when the time comes for that.
. Let the Chamber of Commerce survey this
situation. Let it decide upon the proper loca
tion. Lef .it, find out which of the railroads are
Omaha's friends in this undertaking and which
are not. Let's get ready. .
Man's Greatest Foe.
An eagle soared high above the Nemaha county
court house, king of the air until an airplane,
swifter and stronger, passed far above it. The
correspondent who witnessed the scene writes
that observers found in it a perfect symbol of
man's dominance over all, living creatures.
And so it is. Afloat and ashore, under the
sea and in the air above, man has outdone the
achievements of nature. The world and all its
varied mineral, vegetable and animal life has
been turned by the intelligence of man to his
own ends. ' .
' With everything else in restraint, man has
neglected only to conquer himself. The air
plane, piloted by a soldier flying from Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, to Fort Crook was more than a
symbol of man's supremacy. It typifies also
that man's great enemy today is man. -:
I Each great nation has these instruments, de
signed to protect it from the rest. Carrying ex
plosives and poisonous gases, they are capable
of laying any civilization in ruins. J These and
many other machines combine to menace their
inventors. Partly in recognition of this fact, the
subject of disarmament is much to the fore. In
this is to be seen the final determination of man
to bring himself under due restraint and com
pared to this all other achievements will be as
nothing. , . .
Commissioner Dunn wants to stop "stunt"
flying over the city. He is right The atmosphere
is big enough to give plenty of room elsewhere
for dangerous exhibitions. .
Secretary of Labor Davis announces that he
sees signs of improvement He might have
noted that some time ago if he had been around
Omaha. ; ; '
Omaha is another comrhunity in which im
pulsive spouses show tendency to reach for a
gun the first, thing. A check ought to be put to
this. .
- A husband who made the acquaintance of his
wife in a flirtation is perhaps hoping too much if
he thinks marriage will surely stop the habit ;-r
The redeeming feature about the wage re
duction at Gary is that all other things went
down at the same time. ; -
One encouraging fact in connection with Ne
braska's tax dollar is that most of it goes for
education.
"Jan" may increase speed, but . how about
accuracy?
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About the Ku Klux Klan
Amu ng Mixture of Mumbo
t Jumbo and Something Else.
(By Albert de Silver in The Nation.)
The modern Ku Klux Klan, according to its
descriptive folder entitled The Ku Klux Klan
Who hy hatr Has been in tne making Tor
the oast twenty years. Its imperial wUaru, Mr,
William Joseph Simmons (who has copyrighted
the folder), "lor fourteen years thougnt, ttumcu,
and worked to prepare himself for Us launching.
Dedicating his life to the cause, "he kept his own
counsel during these years, and in the silent re
cesses of his soul he thought out the great plan.'
In the fall of 1915 he was ready and on Thanks
giving night of that year he took thirty-four in
trepid spirits to the top of a mountain near At
lanta, Ga., and there "on the mountain top that
night at the midnight hour while men braved the
surging blasts of wild wintry mountain winds
and endured a temperature far below freezing,
bathed in the sacred slow of the fiery cross, the
invisible empire was called from it's slumber of
half a century.
One might have expected that such a por
tentous event would have been attended by some
extraordinary disturbance of the celestial spheres
or at least bv some strange and mysterious cur
rents in the affairs of men. And indeed, on July
4 next, there did appear from the aulic of his
majesty, the imperial wizard (Mr. William Jo
seph bimmons; an "imperial proclamation di
rected "to the whole world." in which the aims
of the invisible empire, knights of the Ku Klux
Klan, Inc., were set forth. This impressive docu
ment, done in a literary style which should per
haps be described as neo-African, stated simply
that the order, inter alia, was "dedicated to the
sublime and pleasant duty of providing generous
aid, tender sympathy, and fraternal assistance in
the effulgence of the light of life and amid the
sable shadows of death." All men who could
qualify were invited "to approach the portal of
our beneficent domain and join . . . the
sacred duty of protecting womanhood . , .
to maintain forever white supremacy in all
things ... to bless mankind, and to keep
eternally ablaze the sacred fire of a fervent de
votion to a pure Americanism." In conclusion
the order was stated to be "the soul of chivalry
and virtue's impenetrable shield."
The imperial wizard made his verbal mag
nificence somewhat more specific in an interview
later vouchsafed a Chicago representative of the
Universal Service. The reporter, after passing
the "ghoul," "the goblin," and the "cyclops" who
guarded approach to the grand wizard, was told:
We exclude Jews because they do not be
lieve in the Christian religion. We e.cclude
Catholics because they owe allegiance to an
institution that is foreign to the government of
the United States. Any native-born American
who is a member of the English church or any
other foreign church is barred. To assure the
supremacy of the white race we believe in the
exclusion of the yellow race and in the dis
franchisement of the negro. It was god's act
to make the white race superior to all others.
By some scheme of Providence the negro was
created as a serf. . . . We harbor no race
prejudices. The negro never had and has not
today a better friend than the Ku Klux Klan.
The law-abiding negro who knows his place
has nothing to fear from us. . . . We do
not act until called upon, but if needed we have
a great invisible and mysterious force that will
strike terror into the hearts of Jawbreakers.
Which, after all, gave more hint of the sober
reality of the Klan than did the imperial proc
lamation of 1915.
For some years after the proclamation indeed
little was heard of the Klan. The fiery cross ap
pears to have remained hidden under a bushel.
In the fall of 1920, however, the name began to
appear in the newspapers in a disquieting man
ner. (Jn October il the New York .tribune re
ports that a certain Peter McMahon of Yonkers,
while traveling south to assist a lady in a dispute
about her share in the estate of a deceased rela
tive was "taken from a train at Trenton, S. C,
by a gang of men dressed as Ku Klux Klansmen,
who had attempted to lynch him and then had
beaten him." The men, it seems, had tried to
force him to sign a declaration adverse to the
claims of his client. And ten evenings later, and
just before election day, five hundred members
of the Ku Klux Klan marched in costume
through the streets of Jacksonville, Fla., follow
ing the fiery cross, "supposedly," according to
the New York Times, "as a warning to negroes
to attempt no lawlessness at the polls on Tues
day." It is of record that few colored people
voted in Jacksonville on Tuesday. "White su
premacy was maintained. ,M
With the spring of 1921 there came, princi
pally in the state of Texas, a remarkable crop of
mob outrages, all perpetrated by masked bands of
men and so similar in technique as to suggest
a common origin. Among the persons attacked
were both blacks and whites, men and women,
and there was such a variety of apparent causes
as to defy analysis. Responsibility for two, at
least, of the mobbings was publicly avowed by
the Beaumont, Tex., branch of the Klan and it
was widely assumed, in the absence of local dis
avowal, that such responsibility was general.
Southern as well as northern newspapers became
loud in their denunciation of the violence of the
Ku Kluxers. The imperial wizard apparently
became alarmed, and issued statements, (inserted
in many papers as full-page paid advertisements)
denying that the lawlessness was' due to the
Klan. He even revoked the charter of the Beau
mont branch, which had indiscreetly written to
the papers, with the Klan's official seal, glorying
in its crimes. He also suspended the charters
of the Mobile, Ala., and1 Pensacola, Fla., chapters,
which also were caught in rather too flagrant and
public violence. But the cases of threats, tar-and-featherings,
and general rowdiness by mys
terious masked and white-capped men calling
themselves Klansmen continued. The Galsevton,
Tex., Daily News for July 19 lists nineteen such
incidents in Texas alone, beginning on April 1,
when a band of masked men took a negro bell
boy from a Dallas hotel, carried him into the
country near by, whipped him, and branded the
letters K. K, K. with acid on his forehead. The
last was on July 16, at Tenaha, when a young
white woman was seized on a hotel porch by
masked men wearing white uniforms, taken sev
eral miles into the country, undressed, tarred
and feathered, and returned to town. "The sacred
duty of protecting womanhood," no doubt. Proc
lamations and warnings signed "Ku Klux Klan"
and directed against grafters, idlers, bootleggers
and agitators appeared in a number of places, in
cluding the state capitol. In as far separated
places as Houston, Beaumont, Dallas, Waco,
Belton, Goose Creek, Fort Worth, Glidden,
Deweyville, and Timson men were seized by
masked bands and roughly handled. In some
cases they were merely beaten. In others they
were tarred and feathered in addition. Their
abductors on some occasions acted anonymously.
On others they acted in the name of the Ku
Klux Klan and now and then they placarded
their exploit upon the person of their victim.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
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Where Washington Draws the Line.
' In leases of apartments as they are now drawn
in Washington the dweller therein agrees not to
"keep or allow to be kept any dogs, cats, parrots,
graphophones or phonographs." It is to be ob
served, that there is nothing said about babies,
a fact which shows the Washington landlords
know where to draw the line. New York Her
ald. .
Pledge Is Accepted. '
"We will promise never again to get off the
bootblack joke on the Greeks if they will polish
off the Turks this time. Boston Transcript.
Just the Kind for Church Going.
Rainy Sunday mornings never bother those
who are in church. Woreester,Telegrni,
WHY PUPILS ARE ABSENT.
If asked how much of the pupil'
time U loat and. Inferential!)', how
much tt the taxpayers' money ta
list ItecauiMt ot or attendance by
taunun of ali-knew, what would tha
aiikwtr be?
Dr. I. P. Collins of the public
health rvica rttada a study to art
lie ihls pulnt In thirteen lot-aliil In
Mlwmirl during the w anion ot !
SO, Tin towns iudld varied In six
from Oreaon wlih n population f(
904 and with 137 iwhool clillUran to
KeUalla with a populntlon of SI. HI
and 1,367 school children.
Th children ranged In as from
S to 18. on an averts each boy
was Intent twenty duys durinf
osRlon on account of alrkn'M and
ench li I twenty-one days. Thnt
wmounis to four weeks of five aehno!
ilaya each for the boys and a little
more for tho girl. The atoom
i aid for all other causes was slightly
more than one-half thnt from slrk
num. Young children to 10 had n
hlcher average sickness absente
rut than older children.
Abxenteeism was wornt In Febru
ary; January, March and April ram
bunched, but conitlderably behind
the worat month. However, the
February rata was exceptionally
high because of a recurrence of In
tlucnza In that month In the year
under Investigation.
Among the causes of absmteelsni
colds were far and awny the most
Important, both In number of ens"
and days lost. Measles was second
and the other dlMeases followed In
the order named: Mumps, scarlet
fever, whooping cough, chtokenpo.
tonsillitis, pneumonia, diphtheria,
smallpox and miscellaneous.
when It came to the averapro
number of days lout for each illners
the order was considerably changed.
Whooping cough kept the child out
of school 24 days on an average,
pneumonia 19 days, diphtheria 18
days, scarlet fever 13 days, smallpox
15 days, measles 12 days, mnuenr.a
10 days, chickenpox S days, mumps
7 days, tonsillitis 7. colds, 3 and
toothache 2.
An Interesting table Is that which
showed the ages at which dirt. rent
diseases caused high or low ab
senteeism. Colds were least trouble
some In children 6 to 10 and much
more so at the older ages. The
same rule held for tonsillitis, tooth
ache and diphtheria. All other dis
eases were most troublesome with
young children. For Instance,
measles was three times as preva
lent among the young children an!
whooping cough seventeen times.
While Influenza was prevalent
enough In February seriously to dis
turb the schools for a while, that
disease ranked no higher than sev
enth as a cause of absenteeism for
the year. A more extended study
will be carried out among Missouri
school children this session.
It must surprise the taxpayer to
find how much of the school money
is used for the teaching of pupils
who. when the roll la -.'ailed, art
found lu ba at home irk.
It will be noticed that thew ar
pot city schools, Only four of tha
thtrtwn placta had mora than
10,000 Inhabitant and three of
tliein each had lea than !V0 school
children. It ran ba proven that
school inspection and hool nunlng
Itaby ! Doing Well.
C. C. C. write"! "My l-montha'.
tdd boy has been bold fd since
about ( weeks of axe. Hefore that
time he was lonlng weight. Then
we aiaried to feed llorlkk's food.
11 welghvd 7'1 pounds at birth and
now weighs 11 pounds. Ill bowels
have been Inclined to be loos from
the start. Now feed six and one
half ounces of that food about every
three hours and he nsvsr senna to
be aatuned for the spurs of thret-
hour. If I increiist) the amount or
the strength of the food hi bowem
become too loose.
"tihould he have anything els O
eat at hi age during thu hot
months? I keep him a cool a
possible, but often his feet are cold
and he urinates frequently and I
fuxny and doesn't sleeo soundly. I
have been giving him some fruit
Juice.
REPLY.
He is growing satisfactorily. Do
not crowd his food until after Hep.
tcmber 1. At that time he can
have cereal and a little mashed
vegetable as well as more milk.
Keep up the fruit Juice. He ran un
the strained Juice ot canned to
mato Instead.
Lat Ja March, Sweets,
Mrs. J. U. P. writes: "I was
much, Interested In your articles on
d.'nbetes. As yon say obesity Is It
forerunner, and being Inclined thnt
way myself, I would be so glad If
you would publish the best pre
ventives." REPLY.
Rat less food and take more ex
ercise. Above all put the brakes on
bread, pastries, cereals. Ice cream,
desserts, candy and sweets generally.
Matter of Dlnclnllne. ,
E. B. writes: "Will you kindly
let me know If It Is harmful for a
child to drink milk out of a nursing
bottie7 What will cure a 5-year-old
cnna ot mat habit?"
REPLY.
This Is a matter of illnrlnllne in
stead of putting a few ounces of
sugar in tne mux in tne bottle add
a grain of quinine.
Slay Away From Fools.
E. M. writes: "I was badlv
frightened by an animal when about
tnree months pregnant. The animal
pursued me: I also fell. down. Is
there any danger of my child being
niamed ;
REPLY.
Xo. Don't let any long-nosed
relic of the days of superstition
scare the life out of you.
An Indiscreet
Director1
(From the New York Times.)
The democratic national .committee
treats itself to a director of publicity,
What it needs is a director of silence.
The person occupying the fcrmer ex
alted station has been good enough
to enrich the press and the public
with a statement about the plans of
Mr. Harding's administration In re
gard to the Washington conference.
Whoever is responsible for that
statement ought to tarry In Jericho
till his beard has grown to his feet.
His intelligence may be Judged from
his assertion that "the simple ques
tion of disarmament (limitation of
armament) has been complicated by
the Injection of purely diplomatic
Asiatic questions which can only
operate against speedy and successful
results." i
A schoolboy of 16. regarded as
backward in his intellctuals on ac
count of scarlet fever, ought to know
better than that. To remove or abate
the causes of international contro
versy in the Pacific Is a condition
precedent of an - agreement for re
duction ot armament. But it would
be time wasted to go through the
ramifications of foolish partisanship
and execrable taste in which this
document abounds. The whole thing
is a partisan attack, an effort to com
mit the democratic party to a queru?
lous, prejudiced and unpatriotic atti
tude cn national and international
policies of momentous possibility and
scope; policies whose success must
be desired by every friend of peace
who is not satisfied to let the ruin
ous competition of armaments run
on and the always lurking germs of
war to develop in the old way. un
resisted. '
Whatever may or may not be ac
complished by the approaching con
ference, the best wishes of every per
son of good-will go with It. The
democratic party, whatever provoca
tion it may have had from the re
publican party's treatment of the
treaty of Versailles, shouldn't make
the mistake of Imitating It in any
degree. The peace of the Pacific, a
mighty contribution to world peace,
the lessening of the enormous weight
of taxation are objects so vital that
the effort to bring them about should
receive the heartiest help from every
citizen. The democratic party can't
be silly enough or base enough to
approve or follow the narrow and
nagging course laid down by ttiis
Impertinent director of publicity.
Who Ran the War
in the Hills?
(From the Washington Star.)
After peace has been re-establisned
in the West Virginia hills the United
States government should do some
sharp questioning to find out certain
facts. It should ascertain lirst what
form of organisation there was
among the marching miners whose
defiance of the state laws compelled
federal intervention. It should learn
furthermore who provided the arms
or the means of buying them which
these men carried into the hills. It
should find out who furnished their
subsistence supplies. It is impossible
to send two or three thousand men
on a military expedition without
some sort of commissary. Anyone
who has ever been in that region
knows that a freebooting expedition
of 2,000 and more could not possibly
live on the country." It is not a
fully settled, generally tilled land.
It is mostly wooded, rxky and
rough. Two thousand men would
clean out all food supplies within a
radius of 10 miles of camp inside of
two days. It follows that there must
have been some sort of organization.
Not even the most fanatic of these
people would have stayed in their
hills starring. And where did their
ammunition come from to keep up
AW
(The Bee offere Its column freely to Its
reader who care to dlwuaa any pabllo
question. Jta request thai letter ba
reawoaablv brief, not over 300 word. It
alao Inatata that the name of the writer
accompany eaeb letter, not necessarily
for publication, bat that the editor may
know with whom he la dealing. The Bee
does not pretend to Indorse or accept
views or opinions expressed by corre
spondents In the Letter Box.)
Commend The lice's Stand.
Omaha, Sept. IS. To the Editoi
of The Bee: I want to heartily
commend the editorial in ' today's
(Tuesday) paper on the topic, "Who
Killed Virginia Rappe." It is surely
time that citizens who have convic
tions along the line of decency should
join together and absolutely refuse
to support plays that are not con
sistent with a high standard of
morals. Such an editorial as this
will surely help in the development
ot right sentiment. Yours very
truly, , TITUS LOWE.
Omaha, Sept. 14. To the Editor
of The Bee: Your editorial in yes
terday's issue headed "Who Killed
Virginia Rappe" Is commendable,
timely and deserves careful delibera
tion. ,
You told the truth when you said
"Talent does hot require smut as a
stepping stone to success." You aro
correct also in blaming the people
for the scandal in the picture indus
try. . ... -
I am no critic on the ability of
film stars. I have attended political
meetings, however, where the utter
ances of men of talent were mor
ally insanitary. I suppose they
thought smutty stories would bring
success.
. The pret's can do much towards
exalting the minds of men to high
ideals and noble thoughts, thereby
benefiting society.
.Mr. Editor, I admire your cour
age, so few say anything about the
social evils, especially that national
menace, divorce. .
JERRY HOWARD.
such a continuous fire as that which
was reported on the eve of the ar
rival of federal troops. Who directed
the campaign? These men certainly
did not go upon their own hook with
out leadership or guidance. -There
was some plan of operation. Par
ticular bands were directed to certain
strategic points. In short, there was
generalship, whatever its quality.
It is most important that these
questions be answered in order to
find out who was responsible for this
bit of warfare, who inspired it and
for what purpose. If the United
States secret service cannot learn
these things it is not functioning very
effectively. If the facts are known to
the Department of Justice they
should as soon as possible be laid
before the public; that is to say, as
soon as quiet is restored and law is
re-established. If they are not
known they should be.
A veritabl insurrction has been
undertaken, and in circumstances
that arouse the direct suspicion that
a sinister force is at work in what
has become the most sensitive section
of the United States to the end of
provoking a direct conflict with the
federal government- What the peo
ple want to know today is who start
ed it and carried it through to the
point of intervention by federal
forces and stopped it Just on the
verge of battle.
OUR BABY.
There's a rose la oar garden ot beauty,
drar hpart.
A flower In our garden of love.
She came on the wing sot the star-lighted
night:
A bloasom of light front sbove.
Tha sunshine still larks In her (Olden
locked hair.
And th Infinite shines In her eye:
While ths smil that sh brought is th
seal of ear lore
An expression of trust from on high.
Robert 1. Meeker in the Bock Island
. Railroad Magatine.
Tom Kelly Talks
0a European Tour
HoUrian Drlrgatt? ConsiuVr
France Entitled to All In
doiiiinty It Can Collect.
Tom Kelt)', rat secretary of the
Omaha Itotiry rlub id one of the
delegate to (lie intcriutioiiii! con
vention of Rotary clubs in L'din
borough, Scottad, li.t June, dc.crib
cd at length his trip through Eu
rope to hit fellow Kouriaus at their
weekly meeting Wednetday noon it
(he Rome hoiel.
Following his itav in Kdinboro,
Mr. Kelly, hit wife and oilier
Kotarians, made a tour of Kurope
which took them into the devatutcd
regions of 1'rance . and llelgium.
Holland, Switzerland, London and
Paris.
"After seeing the ruin wrought in
l-ranee, 1 believe that r ranee can
not extract too much indemnity from
Germany." said JJr. Kellv. "Much
of the damage done by the German
invaders can never be repaired.
"The graves of the Americans
who died in France are being cared
for by the French, far better than
we could do over here."
Harold George, landscape arch!.
tcct, told Kotarians how to combat
the web-worm and tussock moth
which are doing such great damage
to trees. J he pests can be destroy
ed by arsenic compounds sprayed
on the limbs and leaves of trees and
by burning.
Mr. George declared if the ca
coons and eggs were not destroyed
this fall the pests would he worse
next year.
Omaha Bank President
Settles Strike in Prague
Frank C. Horacck. Omaha bank
president, settled a strike among
bank employes in Prague while vis
iting there last summer.
Iloracek, who ia president of the
Union State linnL- lic.ii-.l ilio mi.
ployes were on strike, declaring they
wanted a voice in the management
of the bank. Mr. Horacck advised
them they were getting dangerously
near to Bolshevism and they called
off their strike. y
Mr. Iloracek and wife returned
Tuesday from aft extended visit in
Europe. '
Sergeant Tlitstriip HeUti
Demotion tt Police HanLi
When Olaf Val.Umar Thctru
kit Omaha srven weeks ago to vi
it Dmnurk he a sergeant on,
ihe Omalu police department. When
he rrpotti'4 for duty Wednetda
upon liii return, he was notified h
had brrn reduced to the ranks and
mu.t hereaflrr alk brat. Then,
iriip, former trriieant of the moral
itquad, declares he will not walk a.
beat until the city council lias corT
firmed thief Urmpkcy a ordni.
Department Report Shout '
8,000 Unemployed in Omaha
Department of Ijilior statistics
show that 8,000 persons are unem
ployed in Omaha. J, M. Gillan, man
ager of the industrial bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce, considers
the figure' too high and declare-,
that only 5,000 are unemployed.
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